Benue Contractor Links Project Delay To Heavy Rainfall

Bauhaus Global Investment Ltd, the contractor handling 2 underpasses successful Gboko and Makurdi section authorities areas and 21 different roads, has attributed the hold successful the completion of the projects to the dense rainfall experienced successful the state.

The company’s task manager, Charbel Al Ammar, told newsmen successful Makurdi, the authorities capital, that present that the rains were receding, much roads would beryllium constructed.

He said the enactment connected the 2 underpasses had reached implicit 95 per cent completion.

Ammar said, “We person completed the walkway connected the underpass task successful Gboko. The institution is moving assiduously to implicit the enactment connected the walkway astatine the Makurdi underpass, which volition beryllium completed adjacent week.

On the contented of water-discharged channels, Amman said, “We are inactive moving connected the discharge channels that volition instrumentality h2o retired of the underpasses.”

He said this would beryllium instantly followed by screeding, painting, and lighting systems, among different finishing touches and assured that enactment connected some projects would beryllium completed successful 2 weeks.

The task manager besides disclosed that the institution is liable for constructing modular roads connecting the underpass.

Also, the director-general of the Bureau of Special Projects and Infrastructure, Prof. Gabriel Akpen, said enactment connected 13 of the 21 roads, totalling 34.35 kilometres, has commenced successful earnest.

Represented by the director, Engineering Services, Engr. Hembadoon Nongo, said though enactment was affected by the unfavourable upwind conditions, the projects person reached 33 per cent completion.

In his remarks, the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) chairman, Benue State Council, Comrade Bemdoo Ugber, commended Governor Hyacinth Alia for his zeal to code the state’s infrastructure deficit.

He said the enactment would assistance to make nationalist consciousness connected transparency and accountability regarding the ongoing infrastructural developments crossed Benue State.